1. Sony Pictures and Will Smith’s Overbrook Entertainment are in early negotiations to pick up the rights to Allen Zadoff's young adult novel Boy Nobody. It is hoped that it will lead to a starring role for Jaden Smith.

According to Variety the as-yet unpublished book “is the first in a planned young adult trilogy about a brainwashed teenage assassin who starts to regain his emotions” and that the main “character is reminiscent of a teenage Jason Bourne.”

So, a franchise starter which will star the son of one of the biggest superstars on the planet, produced by said parent? Kerching!

It may make financial sense, but, I’m not too sure about the artistic merit of this endeavour.

Source: Variety

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2. The Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence looks set to take the lead role in a film adaptation of Jeanette Walls’ autobiography The Glass Castle: A Memoir.

Lionsgate has picked up the rights to the tale which follows Walls’ “difficult childhood with her ‘dysfunctional but vibrant’ family.” The book spent a record 250 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list.

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that The Glass Castle won’t be doing Hunger Games style business at the box office - though Lawrence is a solid performer so there could very well be reason to see the film.